"Helvetian" Quotes from Famous Books
... to the quality of Caesar's enemies falls away at once when it is collated with the deliberate composition of Caesar's own army. Besides that, Caesar's enemies were not in any exclusive sense Gauls. The German tribes, the Spanish, the Helvetian, the Illyrian, Africans of every race, and Moors; the islanders of the Mediterranean, and the mixed populations of Asia, had all been faced by Caesar. And if it is alleged that the forces of Pompey, however superior in numbers, were at Pharsalia largely composed of an Asiatic rabble, ... — Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 • Various
... singular to see how—the aristocracy of birth broken down—the aristocracy of letters had arisen. A Peerage, half composed of journalists, philosophers, and authors! This was the beau-ideal of Algernon Sidney's Aristocratic Republic, of the Helvetian vision of what ought to be the dispensation of public distinctions; yet was it, after all, a desirable aristocracy? Did society gain; did literature lose? Was the priesthood of Genius made more sacred and more pure ... — Alice, or The Mysteries, Book VI • Edward Bulwer Lytton |